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...certain of the year's festive seasons, you find yourself wishing you were a kid again, forget it. You're probably not smart enough. Qualifications for membership in the ranks of the under-12-year-olds, in whose honor the larger emporiums are currently running pandemoniums called toy departments, are high; and aspirants had better have a good understanding of pantographs, sismographs, spinthariscopes, the electrolysis of nickel compounds, the 12-tone scale, and most of the wizardry of modern electronics--to mention only a few points. This is all sine qua non equipment and enables you to perform the elementary...
...Toy transportation facilities this year are as modern as the new store front on Jordan Marsh. That store undoubtedly has the best train exhibit in town, although it doesn't touch F. O. A. Schwarz on the "toy" cars. These 1951 models may actually be toys, but it seemed to me that anyone under nine years old in the way of one of these speeding machines would be running a grave risk of suicide. A sleck, black, compressed air racer, which was also available last year, is capable of enormous speeds and gets up to 75 miles per gallon...
...statistical weighting because they are "now a part of national life." More weight will be allowed for mechanical refrigeration, less for ice. The proportion for rent will be increased because of the fading of rent control. Among new items that may be added next year: beer and a toy doll...
...segment of the populace which for some reason is titillated by horror; the greater the horror, the greater its titillation. Charles Addams is its deity. It chuckles weekly at his pictures of trains bearing down on people strapped to the rails, of teddy bears lashed to the fenders of toy cars, of squat little men sharpening the spikes of their iron fences...
...York City's American Federation of Musicians' Local 802 had long been un decided about the ukulele. The question: Is it 1) a non-professional musical toy or 2) a professional musical instrument? Union banjo and guitar players, who have been complaining of losing jobs to non-union "uke" players, plunked for No. 2. Last week, after pondering the complaints and listening to a demonstration uke performance of Liszt's Liebestraum which struck them as professionally impressive, the executive board of Local 802 made its decision. Henceforth, all practitioners of the uke in 802's jurisdiction...